Hi Again!
It has been quite a while since I have blogged on here, but I have just been so busy between my classes, observations, volleyball, and subbing.
School is school and my education classes are really starting to wear me out. I am really beginning to feel that my Methods and Management and Curriculum and Instruction classes that I am in, are not actually very helpful. I think that I could be teaching the class right now. She also assigned us a ton of projects that I am not sure how beneficial they are really going to be to us in the long run. We have to complete a unit plan, which I think will actually be helpful because I plan on using mine when I am student teaching. Mine is going to be a social studies unit on Texas Civics and Government. I think it will be interesting and it is also nice because this is the first time in school that the kids have Texas History, so it will be new to them for the most part. Is there anyone who has some resources or great websites about that topic that I should look at? One useful thing I do think that has happened in those classes this semester is that we had a person come from the Smart Board company to come and show us how to use them correctly. I learned a lot of things about it that I had never done before. We also have Smart Board presentations coming up shortly and I have no idea what I want to do mine on. I am hoping to do one that I can also use for my unit plan.
I have been going to my mentor teacher's classroom once a week still and I just love it. The kids are so great and my mentor has really involved me in the lessons. Lately, she has been pulling me my own small group for the intervention time and she even let me teach the math lesson the other day. I'm really hoping that my experience in the spring goes as well as it is with my observations right now.
We had to do a management plan the semester before we student taught and during our student teaching, we had to write a unit plan and teach it on a topic approved by our mentor teacher. It was a lot of work but in the end, gave me invaluable insight as to how to really plan a full unit. Although I can say that many of my classes right before student teaching couldn't possibly have prepared me for the amount of paperwork and such that I deal with as a classroom teacher on a daily basis.
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